When I was like 2, my dad was watching Monday Night Football, and before the commercials, it said "we'll be back after this commercial break", so I stood up on a chair and repeated it, and my dad's all "what did you say?" and i thought I was in trouble, because when he said that, it usually means I said a bad word, so I started crying, and my dad's like "ok time to go to bed, your too sad to stay up" but I didn't hear him b/c I was screaming at the top of my lungs, so he picked me up and then I'm thinking "man I must've said something really bad" and my mom woke up and heard me screaming, and my dad was like to my mom "she said---" but i like pinched his mouth shut b/c i didn't want to get in what I called "double trouble" so he had my fingernail marks on his lips, and I never said that again.
A childhood belief about swearing

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- When I was eight, I loved Madonna's "Papadompe Beach." Didn't get why she was in trouble, though....— tncatboy
- I used to believe my middle name was a 'bad word' because my mom only used it when I was in trouble.— DJ
- At nights, when I have trouble sleeping, I used to hear large footsteps - something like the Godzilla.— John
- I thought that "Doube Bubble Toil and Trouble" was "Doube Bubble, Toilet Trouble" Anon
- I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon
- I thought that exclamation marks were actually "explanation marks", since they explain how you pronounce it.— superoid